BogDamus

In days of yore (i.e.; a long time ago), a bloke called Nostradamus came up with a bunch of vague predictions that seemed to mirror things that happened in real life.
What are the odds that we can do better?

His body had been legally dead for 68 years but, much loved by his subjects, his head was maintained beyond his 84th year.

As part of a clear conspiracy, his closest advisors during this time failed to mention to the rest of humanity that, since the procedure, the Emperor's head merely uttered nonsensical babble believed by many scholars to be first stages of communication displayed by the microscopic organisms (evolved from syphilis) that had been in his family for many generations.